Deputy AG accuses Oppong Nkrumah of ‘deliberate falsehood’ over legal vacation case

Deputy Attorney General, Dr Justice Srem-Sai, has criticized MP Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and his legal team for using what he terms a "deliberate falsehood" in their legal battle against Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie's order allowing specific cases to be heard during the legal vacation. The Deputy Attorney General's comments came after the Supreme Court rejected Mr. Oppong Nkrumah's application for an interlocutory injunction to halt criminal trials during the legal vacation.

On August 21, 2026, Justice Gabriel Pwamang, a single judge of the Supreme Court, dismissed the application, stating that the plaintiff had not demonstrated a serious constitutional issue that warranted the injunction. In a Facebook post following the ruling, Dr. Srem-Sai argued that the plaintiff's case was built on the claim that the Chief Justice had assigned "selected cases" to just two judges to hear during the legal vacation.

However, Dr. Srem-Sai pointed out from the court records that this allegation was, in fact, a deliberate falsehood. The Deputy Attorney General highlighted Exhibit D, which showed the Chief Justice's warrant was general and not confined to specific cases, and Exhibit E, which demonstrated that 29 judges, not just two, were sitting during the legal vacation.

He emphasized that by preventing the courts from functioning for a week, the plaintiffs had demonstrated the impact of their deliberate falsehood.